Tom,Thanks for these lovely Durer's -- "Melancholia" with (your) headache (maybe that's why she's got that look? those girls at the beach didn't have THAT look!) and that amazing (hawk's) wing, never before seen (by me I mean). As the picture reaches right out into reality, as the word might also (?), "as the word indicates" --

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pink-red line of cloud above still blacktrees, white circle of moon below branchin foreground, sound of waves in channel

“exaggerating the color not far away,” impression

abode, gathered into itself, as the word indicates

grey-white cloud on horizon beside point,tree-lined green of ridge across from it

Beautifull post, could not forget to think about the pre-socratic greeks that believed time was circular. And also about the song that says history repeating, sang by the wonderfull sherlly. Not to mention how things are always the same but dressed by different words.

Perhaps the perception of the closing of the circle requires a bit of trust on our part.

I suppose if and when we are able to pull back and see the whole from a cosmic perspective, we do see that completeness, the seeming inevitability of it.

Whereas when we get caught up in the ant's-eye-view which is unfortunately the everyday perspective of many of us, it gets harder to see it all coming back round. That's when the headaches would develop.